chemopreventive

Definitions

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adjective of, or relating to chemoprevention

noun a food supplement etc used for chemoprevention

Etymologies

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chemo- +‎ preventive

Examples

From a total of approximately 20,000 men who donated blood samples for analysis of micronutrients and prostate cancer risk, the investigators found "potential chemopreventive effects of gamma-tocopherol on prostate cancer" and a weak association between alpha-tocopherol and prostate cancer risk.